Replacing DVD Drive and GC Backup Question

Hi,

I have a wii which will not play GC backups through disk, now my question would be, if I replace the dvd drive on the wii with one that does work with GC backups, would I be able to use my official Action Replay to play a GC backup with codes?

My next question is, does anyone know all the dvd drive models that DO support GC backups?